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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

Dale Carnegie

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another’s keeping .
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Deep Happiness Person Praise Seek
You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.
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Existence Fear Make Up Mindset Yourself
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.
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Development Encouragement Failure Success
The essence of all art is to have pleasure in giving pleasure.
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Art Essence Happiness Pleasure
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare.
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Chance Dare Life Man Risk Willing Yourself
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it.
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Bright Live See Smile Yourself
So if you aspire to be a good conversationalist, be an attentive listener. To be interesting, be interested. Ask questions that other persons will enjoy answering. Encourage them to talk about themselves and their accomplishments.
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Accomplishment Aspiration Attention Conversation Goodness Listening Person Yourself
First ask yourself: What is the worst that can happen? Then prepare to accept it. Then proceed to improve on the worst.
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Acceptance Improvement Preparation Worst Yourself
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain – and most fools do. But it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.
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Complaint Control Criticism Fools Forgiveness Understand
Use encouragement. Make the fault seem easy to correct.
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Correct Easy Encouragement Mistake
Try honest to see things from the other person’s point of view.
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Honesty Person Point See Try View
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don’t think so. Don’t condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
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People Remember Tolerance Try Understand Wrong
Take a chance! All life is a chance
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Chance Life One Liner
Nobody is more persuasive than a good listener.
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Goodness Listening Persuation
If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work.
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Believe Hold Work Yourself
People do things for “their” reasons, not ours. So find their reasons.
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Deep Ourselves People Reason
Criticism is futile because it puts a person on the defensive and usually makes them strive to justify themselves. Criticism is dangerous, because it wounds a person’s precious pride, hurts their sense of importance, and arouses resentment.
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Criticism Dangerous Hurt Important Person Pride
If you are not in the process of becoming the person you want to be, you are automatically engaged in becoming the person you don’t want to be.
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Engagement Person Process Yourself
The life of many a person could probably be changed if only someone would make him feel important.
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Change Feeling Important Life Person
The most important thing in life is not simply to capitalize on your gains. Any fool can do that. The important thing is to profit from your losses. That requires intelligence, and makes the difference between a man of sense and a fool.
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Fools Important Intelligence Life Man Profit Simplicity
Your smile brightens the lives of all who see it. To someone who has seen a dozen people frown, scowl or turn their faces away, your smile is like the sun breaking through the clouds.
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Break Face Live See Smile Sun Yourself
If you want to gather honey, don’t kick over the beehive.
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Advice Caution Let Go Yourself
You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.
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Friendship Interest People Yourself
Remember, today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
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Future Past Remember Worry Yourself
Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.
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Cherish Forget Kind Life Time Word Yourself
Life truly is a boomerang. What you give, you get.
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Generosity Karma Life True Yourself
Keep your mind open to change all the time. Welcome it. Court it. It is only by examining and reexamining your opinions and ideas that you can progress.
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Change Ideas Mindset Open Opinion Progress Yourself

There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.

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